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Threads on Web — Meta's Twitter killer arrives on desktop
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Chris Messina
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Ok — this could be the start of the continuation of the mass migration from X (considering Elon is deprecating the Block feature on his network), another well-timed launch from Meta!
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@chrismessina I think Elon deprecated the block feature because people where blocking blue-badgers as a protest. Reminds me a bit when china bans white paper because people were using white paper to say nothing as a protest. So we are seeing where this is going with the one supreme ruler ethos etc.
@sentry_co Here it’s a choice between Elon and Zuckerberg, both of them making solo decisions for the platforms. Either one you choose isn’t great, Zuckerberg has a worse history.
@chrismessina On my opinion block isn’t a big feature to give up the platform for, Threads had a good marketing campaign and growth initially but most people haven’t got to stick to it. If you switch to threads, you’re changing one platform with a super rich CEO to another platform with also a super rich CEO.
I really like Threads, even though I’ve not opened FB for years. Hope you’ll be able to deploy it in a Europe soon!
Thumbs up: Snappiness, low latency in general (except with posting)
Can improve: Remove modal-style reply so that one can see the full thread and optionally scroll.
Also, WTH is up with all the spam / clearly ChatGPT-generated comments here? Is it really that lucrative to game PH?!? (yes, I've reported the half-a-dozen+ crap comments)
@maxdo on the contrary: it looks like a highly usable minimalistic interface modern product. Ready to spread its wings. With a virtually zero level of toxicity. A pleasure to use.
@paulbalogh_line21 Interesting opinion but I don’t think it reflects reality, for this kind of app there’s nothing to use, it’s made to consume information content creators share and I think it’s a matter of time before they start showing ads there if it’ll still be alive.
@maxdo so you are not talking about "Threads" you are talking about "this kind of app". What kind? Twitter-like? (i.e. social media based on ads)? Of course they will show some ads in the future, but Twitter sorely needed competition. Now they have it.
@paulbalogh_line21 I wasn’t referring to that, I’m personally spending most time in what Jack Dorsey created after twitter, nostr protocol. It’s early there but it’s fun being a part of something better that’s being created, and it can be more than a social media network. + you’re earning bitcoin while being active there, what can you get from Threads?
@paulbalogh_line21 @maxdo Conversation that's friendly, fun, interesting, and generally free from toxicity.
Can't claim much of that for X nowadays, particularly if you happen to be a woman or part of a marginalized group, or just happen to say something critical about Musk and attract the frothing wrath of his stans.
It is not accessible on the, it wants me to download the mobile app, are you sure it is out?
@lucas_pilzen I read that that is expected to take "months" so... probably not this week, unfortunately :(
